Iran

Three people have been killed during protests in Iran's Kurdistan province over the death of a young woman after she was arrested by "morality police", ...

Terrorist groups are looking to kill," Esmail Zarei Koosha said in comments reported by the semi-official Fars news agency. "I don't think this is an existential challenge to the regime ... Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran on 17 September, 2022. Mr Pourzahabi told Ms Amini's family "all institutions will take action to defend the rights that were violated" and that he was sure Khamenei was "also affected and pained" by her death. In an apparent effort to defuse tensions, an aide to Iran's supreme leader paid condolences to the family of the woman killed in custody in Tehran after morality police arrested her for "unsuitable attire". Iranian authorities have confirmed that three people were killed during popular unrest over the death of a young woman in police custody but sought to deflect blame from security forces by saying the protester killings were "suspicious".

Following Monday's large anti-government protest in central Tehran, demonstrations expanded Tuesday to many Iranian cities and towns, with gunshots ...

Tuesday afternoon - A video from Hamedan, capital of Hamedan Province shows a very large crowd of protesters chanting against the police and shouting “Scoundrels” at them. At least one female student in a video posted on Twitter dropped her headscarf at the gathering of students. Protesters are booing the police and security forces. Protesters are marching on the streets and chanting. One of the videos on social media show security forces attacking protesters. Although the demonstration at the bazaar has already started, activists have called for more protests in central parts of Tehran at 6:00 pm local time or 9:30 am Washington DC time.

The acting High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif, expressed alarm on Tuesday at the death in custody in Iran of a woman after she was detained ...

Ms. “Security forces have reportedly responded with live ammunition, pellet guns and teargas”, she told journalists. Mahsa Amini was arrested a week ago by Iran’s “morality police” in Teheran.

Tehran, Iran – An Iranian governor has confirmed the first fatalities during protests over the death in police custody of a young woman named Mahsa Amini ...

[where she was buried](/news/2022/9/17/police-fire-tear-gas-at-rally-after-iranian-womans-funeral), and spread to several cities in Kurdistan. When in a “guidance centre” later the same day, she had a stroke and a heart attack and was transferred to a nearby hospital, where she died several days later. [Iran denies Mahsa Amini, woman who died in custody, was beaten](/news/2022/9/19/irans-police-denies-women-who-died-in-custody-was-beaten) [Photos: Iranians protest over the death of Mahsa Amini](/gallery/2022/9/20/photos-iranians-protest-over-the-death-of-mahsa-amini) [UN calls for ‘impartial’ investigation into Iranian woman’s death](/news/2022/9/20/un-calls-for-probe-into-iranian-womans-death-amid-protests)

In Sari, north of Tehran, large crowds cheered as women set their hijabs alight in defiant acts of protest. Ms Amini was arrested in the capital last week by ...

They were calling me a prostitute and saying I was out in the street to sell myself. It had previously reported the death of a second man in In the northern province of Gilan, protesters I hope the world supports us." Morality police - known formally as "Gasht-e Ershad" (Guidance Patrols) - are tasked, among other things, with ensuring women conform with the authorities' interpretation of "proper" clothing. Another woman who protested in the central city of Isfahan told the BBC's Ali Hamedani: "While we were waving our headscarves in the sky I felt so emotional to be surrounded and protected by other men. [an online protest campaign called "My Stealthy Freedom"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40218711). Others shouted "justice, liberty, no to mandatory hijab". [state TV alleged that Ms Amini's death was being used as an "excuse" by Kurdish separatists and critics of the establishment](https://twitter.com/KianSharifi/status/1572192194857144320). Punishments for violating the rules include a fine, prison or flogging. Ms Amini's family has said she was fit and healthy. The group reported that three male protesters were shot and killed in clashes with security forces on Monday - one in Saqez and two others in the towns of Divandarreh and Dehgolan - as the unrest escalated.

Female protesters in Iran have begun burning their headscarves as riots continue into a second week, following the death of 22-year old Mahsa Amini, ...

[ falling into a coma](https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/women-remove-hijab-in-protest-after-woman-dies-for-breaking-dress-code/) following her arrest in Tehran on Tuesday. [ increase the surveillance of women](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/05/iran-government-facial-recognition-technology-hijab-law-crackdown) who do not comply with the [strict hijab-wearing law](https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/its-been-one-year-since-yasaman-aryani-was-jailed-in-iran-for-taking-off-her-headscarf-heres-what-you-need-to-know/). [beaten by the country’s morality police](https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/women-remove-hijab-in-protest-after-woman-dies-for-breaking-dress-code/) for not complying with mandatory dress codes requiring women to wear a hijab.

As with Russia and Ukraine or China and Taiwan, Tehran's insistence that the island nation is a lost province is a red flag for US interests.

Bahrain is vital to American interests: It [hosts](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-21/u-s-navy-sends-drone-fleet-into-the-persian-gulf-against-iran) the US Fifth Fleet and the 34-nation Combined Maritime Forces coalition, which pursues missions in antipiracy, maritime security and counterterrorism. In recent weeks, the tightly controlled Iranian media have been reviving long-dormant claims that Bahrain, [a key US ally](https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/2952800/secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-iii-remarks-welcoming-bahrain-crown-prince/), is the “14th province” of Iran, known as [Mishmahig](https://www.iranchamber.com/geography/articles/mishmahig_islands_bahrain.php).

Protests have erupted across Iran in recent days after a 22-year-old woman died while being held by the morality police for violating the country's strictly ...

The governor of Tehran said Wednesday that authorities arrested three foreign nationals at protests in the capital, without elaborating. Iranian leaders have vowed to investigate the circumstances of Amini's death while accusing unnamed foreign countries and exiled opposition groups of seizing on it as a pretext to foment unrest. human rights office says young women have been slapped in the face, beaten with batons and shoved into police vehicles in recent months. The Biden administration has been working with European allies for the last two years to revive the accord, but negotiations appear deadlocked as nonproliferation experts warn Iran has enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb if it chose to build one. At some of the demonstrations, protesters clashed with police and thick clouds of tear gas were seen rising in the capital, Tehran. The police deny Amini was mistreated and say she died of a heart attack. Khamenei himself has seized on so-called “color” protests in Europe and elsewhere as foreign interventions — and not as people demonstrating for more rights. Enforcement was eased under former President Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate who at one point accused the morality police of being overly aggressive. But under Raisi, a hard-liner elected last year, agents of the morality police appear to have been unleashed. Amini's family says she had no history of heart trouble and that they were prevented from seeing her body before she was buried. Protesters were also chased and beaten with clubs by the motorcycle-riding Basij, or volunteers in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard. President Ebrahim Raisi, who will speak at the U.N.

Protests have broken out in several cities in Iran after the death of a young woman who'd been arrested by the so-called "morality police."

KENYON: Well, these hijab rules have been the target of criticism for some time. Of course, some of those videos have been ongoing for months. KENYON: The protests have been active in the capital, Tehran, and up in the northwest Kurdish part of the country, where Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old who died, is from. The response by the morality police is being seen by many as extreme. This started after a young woman died in the custody of the so-called morality police. She's become a symbol for opposition to the requirement that women wear headscarves.